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Please find attached info, bio and fotos for a brand new soundsystem called "LIKWIT BUMZ".
Likwit Bumz will rock straight Hip-Hop clubs as well as the most commercial top 40 RNB & Hip-Hop spots, mash-up sets, house, electro, funk, soul, whatever the crowd prefer...

LIKWIT BUMZ are: DJ PHAT PHILLIE (BLACKOUT/BUMSQUAD DJZ EUROPE) & MC J-RO (THA ALKAHOLIKS, LOS ANGELES)

It is a combination of a live performance (the best of Tha ALKAHOLIKS material cca 15min) and a 2 hour dj set where J-RO is also a HYPEMAN while DJ Phat Phillie spins records. We performed at numerous corporate events such as MTV parties, Nokia & World Ski Cup Events as well as shows all over Europe at places like Hamburg, Frankfurt (Cocoon Club), Zagreb, Luzern, New York (Sutra Lounge), Rome, Chemnitz, Sofia (Bulgaria), Sarajevo, Slovenia, Skopje (Macedonia), Frauenfeld Open Air and the coast of Croatia (Club Hacienda)...

Attached are: fotos & bios.

BIOGRAPHY

Phat Phillie

When it comes Croatian hip-hop, there’s only one name and one crew you need to remember…

Phat Phillie (Blackout crew) is a resident DJ (and promoter) of Blackout Classics, Zagreb’s coolest weekly event. Held at the city’s coolest urban nightspot Club Aquarius, it has hosted sold-out shows by artists such as Redman, DJ Premier, Jazzy Jeff, De La Soul, Royce Da 5’9”, Masta Ace, Raekwon, OC and Big L (rip), Das EFX, Tha Alkaholiks, Jeru The Damaja, Dilated Peoples, Naughty By Nature, The Brand New Heavies...

Phillie got into hip-hop way back in 1984 after hearing UTFO’s Roxanne Roxanne on Zagreb’s legendary station Radio 101 and watching classic films such as Beat Street, Wild Style and Breakin’.

Following a brief stay in the US in 1991 he met DJ Frx with whom he co-hosts Blackout Radio since '93, Croatia’s number one rated hip-hop radio show on Radio 101. To mark the show’s 10th anniversary, they released Blackout 10 (The Best Of Hip-Hop), a compilation of the most important tracks released by artists from Croatia’s richly diverse and exceptionally creative hip-hop scene. Phillie recently made a transition to Radio 808 (www.radio808.com) where he continues to host his Blackout Rap Show on Tuesday nights as well as "Phat Fridays" show (fridays noon - 2pm). Check him out!!

Phillie has DJ-ed not only in Croatia, but also in New York, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Holland and Macedonia. A regular guest on numerous Croatian television shows, he has appeared on Germany’s music television station VIVA TV (Mixery Raw Deluxe) and MTV Europe (MTV Mash).Phillie has also penned articles for a number of the world’s leading hip-hop magazines including Backspin (Germany) and The Source (US) and interviewed artists such as 50 Cent, N.O.R.E., Wu-Tang Clan, Ice-T, Nile Rodgers (Chic), DJ Premier... He can even be heard in a skit on the Dilated Peoples LP 'The Platform'.

As CEO of Blackout Entertainment Croatia, Phillie also manages three of Europe’s hottest hip-hop producers - Koolade, Baby Dooks and Dash, who have worked with the likes of Bow Wow & Omarion, Jadakiss, Erick Sermon, Redman, Lil’ Mo, Styles P, Fatman Scoop, Sean Paul, Fat Joe, Angie Martinez, Das EFX, Joy Danelane, Afu-Ra, Masta Ace, Edo G, El Da Sensei, Consequence, Sadat X, Baby Bash, Pitbull, Masta Killa (Wu-Tang), Miri Ben-Ari, Ghostface Killah, Mizz Nina (Maylasia), Colby O Donnis…

His Blackout Entertainment company does street, radio and club marketing for companies such as Olympus, adidas, Rbk, Axe, Hennessy, Tuborg, Becks as well as booking shows for people like Naughty By Nature, Masta Ace, Roots Manuva,Tha Alkaholiks, 50 Cent, Termanology, De La Soul, DJ Premier...

Phillie was one of the judges of the European Heineken DJ Thirst competition and started an online Blackout TVChannel (www.youtube.com/BlackoutTV1) & a hip-hop blog www.blackouthiphop.com . He is a part of the international crew of DJ’s called “The Bumsquad” and publishes a hip-hop magazine of the same name.

Most recently, Phillie started playing a role of an executive producer of a second installment of the classic "Heavy Rhyme Experience" album for a UK acid-jazz band The Brand New Heavies as well as a debut album "The Makings" for a Croatian producer Koolade. He also formed a soundsystem called Likwit Bumz with MC J-RO from a legendary hip-hop group THA ALKAHOLIKS. The guys have been rocking clubs and festivals in Europe as they performed in Chemnitz, Rome, Luzern, Frauenfeld Open Air, Hamburg, Frankfurt (Cocoon), Sofia, Skopje, Zagreb, Sarajevo & the coast of Croatia.

He remains committed to raising the profile of his team of producers and to securing Croatian hip-hop’s rightful place at the forefront of the global hip-hop evolution.

DJ Phat Phillie & DJ Bronson "Blackout Summer Lounge 2009 Mix" http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MM59GFJ4

DJ Phat Phillie OFF TV Live Mix 009 - Phat Phillie (30.10.2011.)
http://www.mixcloud.com/OFF_TV/off-tv-live-mix-009-phat-phillie-30102011/

J-RO [of Tha Alkaholiks aka Tha Liks]

BIO

Multi-talented with skills, a mind and a mouthpiece - on the mic, on the block, in the classroom and in the boardroom, James ‘J-Ro’ Robinson made his legend in the North Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacoima [San Fernando Valley] years before he burst on the scene in the early ‘90s with the goliath Hip-Hoporiginal party-rockin’ trio, Tha Alkaholiks.

J-Ro started rapping at the age of 13 as a young multi-talented athlete and overall connoisseur of sports and verbal jousting was no exception. But even before blessing the microphone, like many B-Boys before his time, he started as a DJ and overall lover of Hip-Hop, but the mic was irresistible to MC. ‘I learned how to rap from my God-brother, Suave E.D. Brock (RIP) and then met E-Swift and Tash when I was 18 – we became the E.S.P. (Everyday Street Poets) Crew”, says J-Ro – now calling Sweden his home. He was competitive at a young age and his thirst for the mic would get him in special places with special personalities – like DJ Pooh, Scotty Dee, Cold Crush Chris and on tour with Hip-Hop legend, King Tee. ‘I would open for King Tee and after I introduced Tash and E-Swift to him, he renamed us Tha Alkaholiks’, says J-Ro. Tha Alkaholiks would go on to record a breakout single with King Tee entitled, “I Got It Bad Y’all”. The success of the single in tandem with the undeniable personality, of J-Ro, Tash and E-Swift as Tha Alkaholiks, prompted their immediate signing to Loud Records. What would follow is one of the most underappreciated, overwhelming, credible and amazing Hip-Hop careers to ever exist – Tha Alkaholiks earned universal respect as Hip-Hop ambassadors and aficionados around the globe and were never boxed in as ‘regional’ artists.

J-Ro’s success as a man is forever connected with Tha Liks and King Tee, but the B-Boy in him sought more and different experiences and one day he picked up a book that inspired him to make a move. ‘In 2003 I began reading Quincy Jones’ autobiography about him living in Sweden and traveling Europe ‘, explains J-Ro. This was a time when J-Ro felt the stagnation of Hip-Hop approaching as Jazz had experienced during a time in Quincy Jones’ life. An intelligent man from one of Los Angeles’ more difficult neighbhorhoods to grow up in, J-Ro always demonstrated an ability to think outside of the box and defy the convention of stereotypes and one-dimensional thinking, so he did just that in December 2004 and packed his suitcases for Sweden. In Sweden many of J-Ro’s gifts and talents would find fertile soil. As a global representative of Hip-Hop culture, J-Ro would open a clothing shop called LikwitCali, release two albums (818 Antics & Rare Earth B-Boy Funk Vol. 2), DJ and host international parties with a who’s who list of Hip-Hop legends and most rewarding for J-Ro, he would be commissioned as an educator/teacher of Hip-Hop culture …and as important as anything, he has become a full-fledged Hip-Hop ambassador throughout Europe.

One cannot measure the value of a free man who has created and pursued his path like J-Ro has. More than a member of one of Hip-Hop’s most celebrated groups, more than a survivor of an area that has with drugs, gangs and social ills swallowed men and women of color alive and finally more than a B-Boy – J-Ro stands as an ambassador and representative of Hip-Hop’s best elements and of human relations around the world.

for more footage & info on dj Phat Phillie & Likwit Bumz:

www.djphatphillie.com
http://www.j-romusic.com
www.youtube.com/BlackoutTV1

www.facebook.com/phatphillie

www.twitter.com/phatphillie
http://www.facebook.com/therealjro
http://twitter.com/j_ro_alkaholiks
www.blackouthiphop.com

KOOLADE feat. J-RO video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qt1sNamI3ag

Tha Alkaholiks "The Best You Can" Video (produced by The Neptunes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8RXmhfic1c